What is "bifurcations"

Usage examples of "bifurcations".

On the lip of metal that had protected the timer from being blown to smithereens was a faint crescent of ridge endings, crossings, and bifurcations.

What scientists wanted to see was physical problems, described by good old differential equations, that also displayed bifurcations, and universality, and chaotic behavior.

However, such systems are very tricky to study for the occurrence of such things as bifurcations, and involve all the messiness of real-world experiments.

We don't project allegories upon the ruins, so much as we restlessly traverse the bifurcations of Borgesian labyrinths: the infinitely divisible straight line suggested at the end of "Death and the Compass," or the proliferating multiplicities of "The Garden of Forking Paths.

He uncapped the vial of black powder and lightly brushed some onto the prints, clearly defining the ridges and bifurcations.

If I can smoke her, wind her in with words, with what-ifs, with all the bifurcations of her strategy-tree, just long enough to get her eye off the one real now.

She was a long time responding and he noted the subtle characteristics which he'd been told were the Wreave adjustments to anger: a twitching of the jowls, tension in the pedal bifurcations .

I understand the degrees of progression and regression as they relate to random variables in bifurcations of a triple fork.

If I can smoke her, wind her in with words, with what-ifs, with all the bifurcations of her strategy-tree, just long enough to get her eye off the one real now .